Vehicle I-D: USN’s new Robot GunBoat, or CUSV

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Grant G. Grady, 07FEB2020.

February 2020, demonstration of the latest Common Unmanned Surface Vehicle (CUSV),  Norfolk, Virginia.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Rebekah M. Rinckey, 10FEB2020.

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Third Class Rebekah M. Rinckey, 10FEB2020.

Video explains the ‘potential’ use of CUSV:

USN photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Grant G. Grady, 10FEB2020.

USN photo by Seaman Andrenay Gorham, 12FEB2020.

USN photo by Seaman Andrenay Gorham, 12FEB2020.

CUSV control station on the dock.

USN photo by Seaman Scott Youngblood, 20JUL2011.

This is what the CUSV looked like in 2011.  Supposedly it can operate autonomously.

 

VEHICLE I-D: CVN-71